Comment by strcat

GrapheneOS does focus on browser fingerprinting with a long term approach that's being implemented. That's why adblocking is implemented the way that it is with a specific list of filters and then regional/language filters activated based on which languages are enabled. Vanadium does provide good protection against instances of Vanadium being distinguished from each other in ways other than the IP addresses, language, time zone, etc. Adding support for using a universal UTC time zone in Vanadium is one of many planned features for countering fingerprinting. Expanding the Vanadium userbase beyond GrapheneOS would be the main way to reduce fingerprinting since it heavily depends on the number of people using the browser so we eventually plan to launch it for use outside of GrapheneOS once it has more features.

Brave has the best anti-fingerprinting on Android right now but it's not all implemented in a good way and they have a lot of features with privacy and security downsides too. Vanadium is gradually working towards having stronger anti-fingerprinting than it. It will take time. In general, our approach is focusing on doing things properly with the long term in mind. It takes longer but the end results will be better as can be seen for what we ship in many areas. Our network-based location implementation is a nice example among many others.